British Library Crime Classics
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London Particular
$15.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1952, London Particular was Christianna Brand’s favorite among her own books, and it remains a fast-paced and witty masterpiece of the genre, showing off the author’s signature flai
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Brand, Christianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1464237581
- Language: English
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A Telegram from Le Touquet
$15.99 Add to cart“A 1956 stumper with an intriguing twist.”–Booklist
This rare and spirited mystery novel was first published in 1956. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger and Edgar(R) Award-win
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Bude, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1464230552
- Language: English
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Impact of Evidence: A Welsh Borders Mystery
$15.99 Add to cartNear St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a calamity has occurred. Old Dr. Robinson, a known ‘menace on the roads’, has met his end in a collisi
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Carnac, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1464230528
- Language: English
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Fear Stalks the Village
$15.99 Add to cartIt was a model English village, filled with flowers, Tudor cottages, and cobbled streets. Joan Brook loved working there as a companion to Lady d’Arcy, living in the huge mansion with its surrounding
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: White, Ethel Lina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1464230498
- Language: English
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Someone from the Past: A London Mystery
$15.99 Add to cart“An acerbic, tightly structured whodunit that remains a brilliant example of how to do more with less.”—Kirkus Reviews
Sarah has been receiving threatening anonymous letters seemingly from a former lo
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Bennett, Margot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1464230439
- Language: English
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A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries
$14.99 Add to cart“Exceptional fourth anthology of golden age Christmas-themed mysteries”–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
A Postman murdered while delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas pine growing over
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1464214816
- Language: English
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The Progress of a Crime: A Fireworks Night Mystery
$14.99 Read moreFrom the archives of the British Library comes a classic thriller full of mystery, police drama, and simmering tension.
The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes Night. It was
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Symons, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1728219914
- Language: English
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The Body in the Dumb River: A Yorkshire Mystery
$18.99 Read moreDiscover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library’s archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring British classics were written in the golden age of detective f
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Bellairs, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 149269956X
- Language: English
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Bats in the Belfry: A London Mystery
$18.99 Add to cartMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“The intricacies of the characters’ relationships and the trove of secrets Scotland Yard Inspector Macdonald uncovers make for riveting reading
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Lorac, E. C. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1464209650
- Language: English
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Death Makes a Prophet
$18.99 Read moreMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“The ‘stranger in a strange land’ premise works really well in this revived mystery…Bude infuses the tale with comic commentary throughout.”
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Bude, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1464209022
- Language: English
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Castle Skull
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the archives of the British Library, the master of locked-room mystery John Dickson Carr presents an atmospheric and haunting example of crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder.
Alison h
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Dickson Carr, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1464212813
- Language: English
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The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories
$14.99 Read moreMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford
- Series: British Library Crime Classics #0
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1464210918
- Language: English
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Crook O’ Lune: A Lancashire Mystery
$14.99 Add to cart“Effortlessly atmospheric [with] a killer likely to take most readers by surprise.” — Kirkus Reviews
Renowned for its authentic characters and settings based partly on the author’s own experiences of
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Lorac, E. C. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1728278538
- Language: English
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Murder in the Mill-Race
$14.99 Add to cartDiscover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library’s archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fic
- Series: British Library Crime Classics #0
- Author: Lorac, E. C. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1464211752
- Language: English
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Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales
$15.99 Add to cart“Ahoy, my lad!” he bellowed back.
“I didn’t expect you so early. Come for a dip! The water’s fine. Everything is–“
Then it happened.
Mystery and murder run amok amidst ominous peaks and icy lakes. In hu
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 146421638X
- Language: English
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Suddenly at His Residence: A Mystery in Kent
$15.99 Add to cartWhile the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard March have descended upon Swanswater Manor in Kent for a family gathering and the finalising of the patriarch’s will. Disgr
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Brand, Christianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 146421641X
- Language: English
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Twice Round the Clock
$15.99 Add to cart“It is past the half-hour. My time is coming nearer with every tick of the clock.”
Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and “closed book” even to his friends is found dead in his study at 4am, following
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Houston, Billie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1464216355
- Language: English
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The Wheel Spins
$15.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1936 and adapted for the screen as The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938, Ethel Lina White’s suspenseful mystery remains her best-known novel, worthy of acknowledgement as a
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: White, Ethel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1464216444
- Language: English
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Death of a Busybody
$14.99 Read moreMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“Fascinating period detail from the blackout days, a plot that keeps surprising, and contemporary crime novelist Martin Edwards’ insightful int
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Bellairs, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1464207364
- Language: English
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Death on the Riviera
$14.99 Read moreMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“There are occasional splashes of witty dialogue and luscious descriptions of the French Riviera; also, every suspect has at least one guilty s
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Bude, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1464205698
- Language: English
